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This is a horror game parodying edutainment games of the 1990s. In it, the objective is to collect seven notebooks and escape Baldi's madhouse school. After collecting a notebook, the player must correctly answer a series of elementary school-age questions. Every time a question is answered wrong, Baldi will get angrier and attempt to dismember the player. Some of Baldi's friends will also try to distract the player, putting him/her at further risk of getting caught by Baldi. There are other entities in the school that try to hinder your progress, such as a jump-roping girl, the school's principal, a giant talking broom, a bully, a sock-puppet, and a hug-loving Cyborg on wheels. Throughout the game, the player will find various items, which can work to his/her advantage when fending off Baldi and his friends. It was hurriedly slapped together in a couple of days for a contest, and it shows, yet despite this, the game has almost immediately gained a cult following for uniquely utilizing a "terrible yet nostalgic 90's edutainment games" motif, along with creating a fandom comprised mostly of people from the previous "big" indie horror games. In response, the developer greatly expanded upon it with a content update.
In July 2018, a successful Kickstarter was funded to create a full retail version called Baldi's Basics Plus which was released in Jun/2020 and has hugely expanded gameplay features, including procedurally generated levels, field trip minigames, crazy random events, PLUS more characters, more items, and more chaos. In Oct 22/2022, Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered was released which features three games in one, gameplay improvements, a more authentic art style, accessibility improvements, and brand new ways to play. You can experience the original game by playing in Classic Style, or you can try Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash, which wraps all the items up and shuffles them around, by playing in Party Style. Anyone who hasn’t played Baldi’s Basics Plus yet can get a taste of some of that game’s features with the new Demo Style, which mixes many of the new elements found in Baldi’s Basics Plus into the classic map. All three styles can also be played in endless mode too, where you can try to collect as many notebooks as possible before getting caught by Baldi. |
